Wallace Hendricks
Biographic Data
| ID | 1105836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wallace Hendricks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wallace |
| FAMILY NAME | Hendricks |
| SIGNATURE | HENDRICKS W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Do Formal Salary Systems Really Matter
Drawing on a single large U.S. corporation's personnel records for the years 1989-93, the authors analyze an example of the kind of formal salary system used by most large firms. They find that this firm's practices were consistent with most of the important conclusions of prior empirical research on internal labor markets. The system was highly centralized, covering salary levels, salary ranges, raises, and bonuses. Supervisors had little discre…
An Exploration of Access and Treatment Discrimination and Job Satisfaction among College Graduates with and without Physical Disabilities
The current study explored the extent to which college graduates with and without physical disabilities reported experiencing discrimination in their overall work histories. Resufts suggested that respondents with disabilities reported experiencing significantly more access discrimination than respondents without disabilities and that the specific type of physical disability influenced the extent of access discrimination experienced. There were n…
Deregulation and the Decline of the Unionized Trucking Industry
Union Characteristics and Bargaining Outcomes
This paper investigates the impact of union militancy, size, centralization, and democracy on wages, fringe benefits, and other bargaining outcomes. Using data on bargaining outcomes at the bargaining unit level in conjunction with data on comparative union characteristics, the authors find strong evidence that union characteristics affect bargaining outcomes. Determining the exact nature of those effects is complicated by several problems-notabl…
Wage Indexation and Compensating Wage Differentials
A stractThe theory of wage indexation implies that if workers are more risk averse than firms, then workers will pay a price in order to obtain wage indexation. This prediction is tested on a sample of 3,115 U.S. manufacturing collective bargaining negotiations from 1967 to 1982. The dependent variable is the expected real wage level taking into account expected cost of living payments (Colas). Using instrumental variables or fixed effects techni…
Wage Indexation in the United States: Cola or Uncola
Challenges and Choices Facing American Labor
Cost-of-Living Clauses in Union Contracts: Determinants and Effects
This study investigates, for the period 1969-81, the determinants of the incidence and strength of cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) clauses in U.S. manufacturing and the effect of those clauses on wage inflation. The sample includes approximately 5,570 union contracts in over 2,600 bargaining relationships. The authors find that both union bargaining power and inflation uncertainty positively affected the probability that a COLA clause was adopte…
The Determinants of Bargaining Structure in U.S. Manufacturing Industries
This study uses BLS data on individual collective bargaining agreements and industry data from several sources to estimate the determinants of bargaining structure in the manufacturing sector. Probit analysis is used to estimate, first, the probability that a given agreement is multifirm rather than single-firm in coverage and, second, the probability that a single-firm agreement in a multiplant firm is less than firmwide in coverage. Industry co…
Regulation, Deregulation, and Collective Bargaining in Airlines
To test the hypothesis that government regulation of an industry's product market increases union power in that industry, this study first compares earnings and the "scores" of union contracts in airlines and manufacturing, and then compares negotiated wage rates and union contract scores in the more regulated and the less regulated segments of air transportation. The results, while not definitive because of data limitations, consistently support…
Occupational Segregation by Sex: Trends and Prospects
Postwar trends in the degree of occupational segregation are investigated. Segregation is found to have increased slightly between 1950 and 1960 as predominantly female clerical and professional jobs grew in relative size. Changes in occupation mix were neutral in impact during the 1960-70 period, but an inflow of men into female professions and of women into male sales and clerical jobs produced a modest drop in segregation. This decrease fell f…
An Exploration of Access and Treatment Discrimination and Job Satisfaction among College Graduates with and without Physical Disabilities
The current study explored the extent to which college graduates with and without physical disabilities reported experiencing discrimination in their overall work histories. Resufts suggested that respondents with disabilities reported experiencing significantly more access discrimination than respondents without disabilities and that the specific type of physical disability influenced the extent of access discrimination experienced. There were n…
Regulation, Deregulation, and Collective Bargaining in Airlines
To test the hypothesis that government regulation of an industry's product market increases union power in that industry, this study first compares earnings and the "scores" of union contracts in airlines and manufacturing, and then compares negotiated wage rates and union contract scores in the more regulated and the less regulated segments of air transportation. The results, while not definitive because of data limitations, consistently support…
Cost-of-Living Clauses in Union Contracts: Determinants and Effects
This study investigates, for the period 1969-81, the determinants of the incidence and strength of cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) clauses in U.S. manufacturing and the effect of those clauses on wage inflation. The sample includes approximately 5,570 union contracts in over 2,600 bargaining relationships. The authors find that both union bargaining power and inflation uncertainty positively affected the probability that a COLA clause was adopte…
Do Formal Salary Systems Really Matter
Drawing on a single large U.S. corporation's personnel records for the years 1989-93, the authors analyze an example of the kind of formal salary system used by most large firms. They find that this firm's practices were consistent with most of the important conclusions of prior empirical research on internal labor markets. The system was highly centralized, covering salary levels, salary ranges, raises, and bonuses. Supervisors had little discre…
The Determinants of Bargaining Structure in U.S. Manufacturing Industries
This study uses BLS data on individual collective bargaining agreements and industry data from several sources to estimate the determinants of bargaining structure in the manufacturing sector. Probit analysis is used to estimate, first, the probability that a given agreement is multifirm rather than single-firm in coverage and, second, the probability that a single-firm agreement in a multiplant firm is less than firmwide in coverage. Industry co…
Union Characteristics and Bargaining Outcomes
This paper investigates the impact of union militancy, size, centralization, and democracy on wages, fringe benefits, and other bargaining outcomes. Using data on bargaining outcomes at the bargaining unit level in conjunction with data on comparative union characteristics, the authors find strong evidence that union characteristics affect bargaining outcomes. Determining the exact nature of those effects is complicated by several problems-notabl…
Occupational Segregation by Sex: Trends and Prospects
Postwar trends in the degree of occupational segregation are investigated. Segregation is found to have increased slightly between 1950 and 1960 as predominantly female clerical and professional jobs grew in relative size. Changes in occupation mix were neutral in impact during the 1960-70 period, but an inflow of men into female professions and of women into male sales and clerical jobs produced a modest drop in segregation. This decrease fell f…
Regulation, Deregulation, and Collective Bargaining in Airlines
To test the hypothesis that government regulation of an industry's product market increases union power in that industry, this study first compares earnings and the "scores" of union contracts in airlines and manufacturing, and then compares negotiated wage rates and union contract scores in the more regulated and the less regulated segments of air transportation. The results, while not definitive because of data limitations, consistently support…
The Determinants of Bargaining Structure in U.S. Manufacturing Industries
This study uses BLS data on individual collective bargaining agreements and industry data from several sources to estimate the determinants of bargaining structure in the manufacturing sector. Probit analysis is used to estimate, first, the probability that a given agreement is multifirm rather than single-firm in coverage and, second, the probability that a single-firm agreement in a multiplant firm is less than firmwide in coverage. Industry co…
Cost-of-Living Clauses in Union Contracts: Determinants and Effects
This study investigates, for the period 1969-81, the determinants of the incidence and strength of cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) clauses in U.S. manufacturing and the effect of those clauses on wage inflation. The sample includes approximately 5,570 union contracts in over 2,600 bargaining relationships. The authors find that both union bargaining power and inflation uncertainty positively affected the probability that a COLA clause was adopte…
Wage Indexation and Compensating Wage Differentials
A stractThe theory of wage indexation implies that if workers are more risk averse than firms, then workers will pay a price in order to obtain wage indexation. This prediction is tested on a sample of 3,115 U.S. manufacturing collective bargaining negotiations from 1967 to 1982. The dependent variable is the expected real wage level taking into account expected cost of living payments (Colas). Using instrumental variables or fixed effects techni…
Wage Indexation in the United States: Cola or Uncola
Challenges and Choices Facing American Labor
Union Characteristics and Bargaining Outcomes
This paper investigates the impact of union militancy, size, centralization, and democracy on wages, fringe benefits, and other bargaining outcomes. Using data on bargaining outcomes at the bargaining unit level in conjunction with data on comparative union characteristics, the authors find strong evidence that union characteristics affect bargaining outcomes. Determining the exact nature of those effects is complicated by several problems-notabl…
Deregulation and the Decline of the Unionized Trucking Industry
An Exploration of Access and Treatment Discrimination and Job Satisfaction among College Graduates with and without Physical Disabilities
The current study explored the extent to which college graduates with and without physical disabilities reported experiencing discrimination in their overall work histories. Resufts suggested that respondents with disabilities reported experiencing significantly more access discrimination than respondents without disabilities and that the specific type of physical disability influenced the extent of access discrimination experienced. There were n…
Do Formal Salary Systems Really Matter
Drawing on a single large U.S. corporation's personnel records for the years 1989-93, the authors analyze an example of the kind of formal salary system used by most large firms. They find that this firm's practices were consistent with most of the important conclusions of prior empirical research on internal labor markets. The system was highly centralized, covering salary levels, salary ranges, raises, and bonuses. Supervisors had little discre…
Economics (10 works) · Labour economics (10 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Wage (5 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (4 works) · Microeconomics (4 works) · Bargaining power (3 works) · Collective bargaining (3 works) · Industrial organization (3 works)